Thirteen years ago the pages of a book spilled onto the Internet depicting unparalleled cosmic intervention and the outright manifestation of demonic entities terrorizing people. And it did so to a world far different than the one we live in today. And yet the world, in all its subsequent permutations never rose beyond a simple conversation leading to a dead end about this elusive book. Years passed, and the book along with its photographs were soon forgotten -rarely spoken of after the turn of the millennium- along with its mysterious history. Despite this, the contents of the tome claimed to contain not only photographic evidence of supernatural entities, but alluded to a sinister plot to dominate the human race. That book was titled, “The Incident.”
The Incident appeared on an unsuspecting human race at a time unknown, first filtering into Internet forums and then spreading around the web like wildfire. But all roads eventually led to the site of one Balder Olrik, who said that he had obtained the book in an old used bookstore in Germany. As he searched through the pages he found that the title of the book, which bore his name and appeared to depict something of his family history was entirely different. It had been hidden in an older version of the book.
After purchasing the book, Olrik began studying its pages. The text was simple. It appeared more like a brochure or children’s picture book than a legendary tome of occult history. And yet as he looked through those pages, he saw nothing comforting. And the only information he gleaned from it served to mystify him further. The book made reference to the Kennedy Assassination, the UFO crash at Roswell (even coining the term “Roswellium” for a metal capable of flight), Ancient Occult Orders, and The New World Order. The grim details of the pages depicted several apparently influential people as they plot the end of the world, murder the traitors among them, and summon demons to terrorize the nonbelievers who were not on board with their nefarious plots. If it were genuine, it would prove to be the single most powerful and influential piece of evidence that the world as we know it is a bubbling cauldron of evil.
Then one day, on Olrik’s site a letter appeared depicting the entire thing as an art piece and social experiment designed to entertain and get people to question what they see in hear during critical political moments and times when the truth appeared obvious, but was really just a long hallway filled with smoke and mirrors. And while the hoax Olrik perpetrated was not necessarily the most heard of, or the most often depicted on radio talk shows, it was most certainly one of the most interesting. It was almost a shame to learn it was all just a man trying to warn us of the dangers of our world and the virtue of skepticism in the face of terrifying adversity. Fiction – in this case- was stranger than fact.
Or was it?